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Fundamentalism and the Psychology of Violence Fr. Lawrence R. Farley 21 January 2017 Propaganda Poster Recently I began what I hope will become a dialogue with a fundamentalist.  That is, I asked on-line for a free copy of the Quran, and in due time it arrived in the mail.  After a ...
Remembrance of God is instructive and creates humility Maria Dimitriadou, Pedagogue 21 January 2017 Christ transforms death into sleep, into dormition. When people die, the soul is temporarily separated from the body. The body is given over to decay and returns to the dust of the earth from which ...
With courage Saint Joseph the Hesychast 20 January 2017 Learn to suffer courageously the trials the Lord may allow to visit you. Don’t seek comfort from people in your sorrows, but take your comfort from God....
A Spiritual Migration: The Story of my Return Home Gale Bellas-Papageorge 20 January 2017 As I was growing up, I was living in a world that neither my mother nor father had a complete understanding or control of, particularly my mother who was an immigrant. Of course, my parents allowed ...
Encountering The Beauty Of The Church: The Way Of Love Jonathan Jackson 20 January 2017 I would like to briefly express what the Orthodox Church means to me, as one who has entered into it later in life. This of course, is impossible to articulate with words, because it is a mystery, b...
Cunning actions Saint John of Kronstadt 19 January 2017 The purer and more powerful are the means that unite us to God, that is prayer and repentance, the more cunning and destructive the actions of the evil one become against these means....
The Eucharist: Its Meaning and Place in Our Salvation Fr. Lawrence R. Farley 19 January 2017 The earliest title of the main Sunday service of the Christian Church is “the Eucharist”, from the Greek word eucharisteo, meaning, “to give thanks.” As early as about the middle of the second century...
Preparation for Holy Communion 19 January 2017 This preparation incorporates a series of supplications and a prayer by the priest which concludes with the words: ‘And count us worthy, Master, with boldness and without condemnation, to dare to call...
Moth-eaten virtues Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis 18 January 2017 Vainglory is the thief of spiritual riches. It doesn’t only destroy good works but also becomes a guide for evil ones. It undermines the foundations of the greater virtues. It’s the moth that eats a...
Cut off the passions before the soul becomes accustomed to them – 3 Saint Abba Dorotheos 18 January 2017 I’ve told you in different ways how people fall into bad habits. We don’t call people volatile if they lose their tempers just once. They’re not libertines if they succumb once. If they’ve given alm...
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